President Muhammadu Buhari, on September 30, sent a list of ministerial nominees to the Senate through the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, for screening and subsequent confirmation.

Ibrahim Usman Jibril

The list, which was the first batch with twenty one names, had Ibrahim Usman Jibril as one of the nominees.

Ibrahim Usman Jibril, who was born on January 27, 1958, hails from Nasarawa Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, started his educational pursuit in Nasarawa before graduating from Bayero University, Kano, with Bachelor of Arts/Education in Geography Education; and a Masters degree from same University with MSC in land Resources, specialising in land administration.

Jibril started as a primary school teacher and then secondary school teacher where he taught geography and later as a lecturer at the Federal Polytechnic, Nasarawa, before he joined the core civil service.

1. Jibril joined the then Ministry of Federal Capital Territory, MFCT, in 1999 as Land Officer, posted to   the Abuja Geographic Information Systems, AGIS as Assistant Chief Land Officer between 2003- He worked with   Manjib and Company between   2006-2008. He later returned to the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, as Deputy Director, then as Acting Director of Land Administration in the Department of Land Administration and Deputy Director, Logistics and ICT, at  the Department of Development Control at the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council, AMMC. Jibril, who parades a very intimidating resume, with his experience in the day to day running and management of the Federal Capital Territory, as the  Land Officer in the defunct MFCT, also served   as the secretary of the Ministerial  Committee for the Appraisal of Physical Planning and Development Issues within the FCT in 1999, during which a comprehensive report was produced on the following areas:Resettlement issues within the FCT,  Status of Neighborhood Centers within the FCC,  Status of district centers within the FCC,  Status of Green Areas/Parks/Recreational centers within the FCC, Activities of Traditional Rulers over land issues within the FCT and distortions of some of the provisions of the Master Plan of the FCT.

After he was promoted the Assistant Chief Land Officer, Jibril became responsible  for the general coordination of the computerization of all the FCT Area Councils’ title documents,  data capture, data cleaning and quality control of all FCT Area Council’s land data, coordinated    the Cadastral cleaning of all the FCT Area Councils’ Cadastral Plans and development of GIS,  coordinated the harmonization and development of Land Information Systems (LIS) for the FCT Area Councils,    coordinated    the  preparation and implementation of budget for the Land Department, and he assisted    the Director of Lands and Secretary of the FCT Land Use and Allocation Committee (LUAC) in running the Secretariat of the LUAC.

As Deputy Director, he coordinated  the harmonization and development of Land Information Systems (LIS) for the FCT Area Councils as well as coordinated    and supervised   the production of new computer based certificate of occupancy for over 155,000 files.

As Acting Director of Land, Jibril was the head  of the department and was responsible for general administration of both human and material resources for the entire department; he was responsible    for issuance of title documents to land  within the FCT  as well as ensuring the  general security of those documents and was  Secretary of the FCT Land Use & Allocation Committee where he was responsible  for the processing of all land transactions and perfection of all title documents  arising from such transactions.

As Deputy Director, Logistics & ICT, Jibril was saddled with the responsibility of ensuring the  general coordination of the  computerization of all  Development Control records that were in hard copy/paper format since 1980 and was also responsible  for general coordination for the creation of a new Spatial Data Infrastructure to ease the problem associated with analog system of record keeping within the Department.

Until his nomination as a ministerial nominee, subsequently screened and cleared by the Senate and fit to be assigned a portfolio, Jibril was the Senior Special Assistant to Nasarawa State Governor and Project Manager, Nasarawa Geographic Information System, NAGIS.

As the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor and Project Manager, NAGIS, Ibrahim Usman Jibril was responsible for general coordination, planning, development and supervision of the entire Nasarawa Development Platform, NDP, programme and the day to day project management and coordination with the Ministry of Land and Urban Development MLUD.